Is legacy thinking is holding you back more than legacy software?
So many customers expecting stellar, real-time experiences.
So many companies running SAP.
So many people within those companies moaning about their system’s lack of responsiveness...
And one, big, fatal misconception:
That your SAP system doesn’t let you do quick-thinking, innovative moves fit for the modern world.
That’s what this slideshare is all about: debunking the myth of SAP’s inbuilt rigidity and driving change from a position of strength.
Give it a read. You’ve got nothing to lose, and a lot of agility to gain.
This presentation is based on 11 years of experience Grid Dynamics has accumulated in helping large enterprises transform themselves with cloud, open source and devops. It has been delivered to VP-level technology executives in retail faced with driving digital transformation of their organizations
What Nobody's Telling You About Agile and DevOpsTasktop
Everyone is talking about improving software delivery using Agile and DevOps. They've had some success - but the secret nobody is talking about is that it's not really working at enterprise scale.
In this talk, we discuss:
* the common goals of Agile and DevOps transformations
* how these goals break down at enterprise scale
* how you can achieve an integrated value stream that will put your transformation back on track.
Taking Splunk to the Next Level - ManagementSplunk
Your team is up and running with Splunk. Now you want to maximize your investment and solve additional business problems. Attend this session led by a Splunk expert on how to expand beyond the initial use case. Learn how to how to capture, document and present Splunk's data and present impactful ways to calculate ROI using concrete metrics; cost savings, time savings, efficiency gains, and competitive advantage.
Shows how RDS supports HANA, new Assemble to order Strategy utilizing RDS, Business Case studies tied to Technology and an evolution path for CRM utilizing RDS, HANA and the Cloud.
Agile principles and mindset agile wednesday seriesJamey Lees
Jamey is a project catalyst for motivation and believes project success starts with team confidence. He has directed / managed project portfolios up to $200 million and portfolios as low as 1/2 million dollars in funding. Being a lifelong learning, it was the smaller projects where he learned he has an innate ability to find the right balance between people and process to obtain the team’s innovation hidden talents. Leveraging his unwavering determination, he has successfully implemented projects with company-wide impacts involving ~700 stakeholders.
Jamey is an Iowa native, graduated from Iowa State University, and certified in Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP) and, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). He is an active PMI member of the PMI Washington DC chapter.
7 Must-Have Value Stream Management Capabilities to Maximize ROITasktop
The transition from project to product in Enterprise IT has the potential to drastically improve market response. Product line leaders can shift resources and funds up to 90% faster than in a project model.1 But that agility and authority is wasted if inadequate data and analytics on end-to-end flow are impeding IT from accelerating business growth.
Join Tasktop Sr. Director of Product, Naomi Lurie, and Principal Value Stream Architect, Mara Puisite for a webinar demonstrating how your organization can maximize business ROI with Value Stream Management and Flow Metrics by:
Measuring the rate of value delivery across software products and services
Capturing actionable insights into the bottlenecks impeding business value delivery
Providing a unified executive view of software delivery productivity and its correlation to business results like growth
Making informed data-driven decisions about future investments in a product line
This presentation is based on 11 years of experience Grid Dynamics has accumulated in helping large enterprises transform themselves with cloud, open source and devops. It has been delivered to VP-level technology executives in retail faced with driving digital transformation of their organizations
What Nobody's Telling You About Agile and DevOpsTasktop
Everyone is talking about improving software delivery using Agile and DevOps. They've had some success - but the secret nobody is talking about is that it's not really working at enterprise scale.
In this talk, we discuss:
* the common goals of Agile and DevOps transformations
* how these goals break down at enterprise scale
* how you can achieve an integrated value stream that will put your transformation back on track.
Taking Splunk to the Next Level - ManagementSplunk
Your team is up and running with Splunk. Now you want to maximize your investment and solve additional business problems. Attend this session led by a Splunk expert on how to expand beyond the initial use case. Learn how to how to capture, document and present Splunk's data and present impactful ways to calculate ROI using concrete metrics; cost savings, time savings, efficiency gains, and competitive advantage.
Shows how RDS supports HANA, new Assemble to order Strategy utilizing RDS, Business Case studies tied to Technology and an evolution path for CRM utilizing RDS, HANA and the Cloud.
Agile principles and mindset agile wednesday seriesJamey Lees
Jamey is a project catalyst for motivation and believes project success starts with team confidence. He has directed / managed project portfolios up to $200 million and portfolios as low as 1/2 million dollars in funding. Being a lifelong learning, it was the smaller projects where he learned he has an innate ability to find the right balance between people and process to obtain the team’s innovation hidden talents. Leveraging his unwavering determination, he has successfully implemented projects with company-wide impacts involving ~700 stakeholders.
Jamey is an Iowa native, graduated from Iowa State University, and certified in Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP) and, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). He is an active PMI member of the PMI Washington DC chapter.
7 Must-Have Value Stream Management Capabilities to Maximize ROITasktop
The transition from project to product in Enterprise IT has the potential to drastically improve market response. Product line leaders can shift resources and funds up to 90% faster than in a project model.1 But that agility and authority is wasted if inadequate data and analytics on end-to-end flow are impeding IT from accelerating business growth.
Join Tasktop Sr. Director of Product, Naomi Lurie, and Principal Value Stream Architect, Mara Puisite for a webinar demonstrating how your organization can maximize business ROI with Value Stream Management and Flow Metrics by:
Measuring the rate of value delivery across software products and services
Capturing actionable insights into the bottlenecks impeding business value delivery
Providing a unified executive view of software delivery productivity and its correlation to business results like growth
Making informed data-driven decisions about future investments in a product line
Understanding new Rapid Deployment Solutions. 150+ applications taht help solve business problems in weeks not years. Written from a basic user viewpoint.what
Agile 2014- Metrics driven development and devopsKarthik Gaekwad
There are many facets of devops, and we will spend our time in this presentation focusing on collecting and using metrics (business, application, system, etc.) and building a metrics driven culture in organizations.
We will define how we have seen devops progress in our organizations and how we’ve realized that different teams in our organizations can find common ground when teams (who have different roles) can work well together when they use metrics as the common language.
Karthik will talk about how we are using the principles from the Lean Startup to define our development cycles, sprints and using metrics to quantify how successful the products we are trying to come out with in R&D. Initially we started practicing devops on the dev and ops side of the house but realized this was still a black box to the business side of the house, so we pivoted to what our business actually understood, and that was metrics; today, we focus more on metrics (business and system level), and can fail or succeed fast to achieve our business goals faster than before.
Ernest will go into detail on how a large, mature SaaS organization uses metrics in conjunction with distributed agile development and DevOps to guide their development at scale. How much a product is used, how much each feature is used, and how much value each user gets out of it are key drivers for a business strategy - and it’s all information that’s emitted by a system. He'll show how large companies have invested time in collecting and using these metrics to guide their decisions and influence their culture.
Taking Splunk to the Next Level - ManagementSplunk
Your team is up and running with Splunk. Now you want to maximize your investment and solve additional business problems. Attend this session led by a Splunk expert on how to expand beyond the initial use case. Learn how to how to capture, document and present Splunk's data and present impactful ways to calculate ROI using concrete metrics; cost savings, time savings, efficiency gains, and competitive advantage.
Transform software delivery with tasktop integration hubTasktop
We won’t build your software for you, but we will transform *how* you build it, making your software delivery process better and faster.
Join us to learn how Tasktop allows your disconnected tools to act harmoniously by automating collaboration, traceability, and visibility from ideation to production, enabling your organization to accelerate its business value delivery.
Product Managers Cynthia Mancha and Trevor Bruner do a live demo to show you how Tasktop lets you:
* connect your Lifecycle, DevOps and Database tools into a unified software delivery toolchain
* scale to hundreds of projects in a matter of minutes
* collaborate in context with attachment and comment synchronization
DEVNET-2015 DevOps In Depth - Damon Edwards on DevOps Kaizen: Building an Ent...Cisco DevNet
Damon Edwards will be discussiong DevOps Kaizen: Building an Enterprise’s Capability to Change -- There are plenty of aspirational DevOps stories about organizations achieving blistering speed and dazzling nimbleness. But when you look at your own organization everything feels complicated, contentious, and stuck. How do you get started? How do you overcome the silos, the legacy, the entrenched behaviors? This talk is about starting and sustaining a DevOps transformation in large and complex of organizations using a methodical -- and totally reasonable -- Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) approach. This talk isn't about mythical silver bullets. It's about real examples of enterprises that learned to fix themselves by taking a fresh look at proven techniques
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
This slide is a discussion of Traditional Project Management V Agile Project Management. Where and how both fits in, why should we go for Agile Project Management, What is Agile etc. is dealt in detail,
Metrics - You are what you measure (DevOps Perth)Rob Crowley
DevOps is no longer just the concern of cutting edge start-ups in Silicon Valley and is gaining wide scale adoption within established industries. This session focuses on the Metrics pillar of DevOps and explores how we can leverage metrics to drive the software delivery process based on data rather than gut feel and opinions.
Connecting ALM Tools for a DevOps World with RLIA-TETasktop
In this slide deck from the on-demand webinar presented by strategic partners Tasktop and 321 Gang, you’ll learn how to connect ALM development tools across development teams to create an architecture for DevOps automation and build process models that connect the various stages of software delivery using RLIA-TE.
Tech Mahindra and CollabNet have worked together on a number of mission-critical projects, and over the course of their partnership have developed unique expertise in lifecycle, development-to-production metrics. Gain an understanding not only of what metrics are important, but also practical approaches to building reports and dashboards that deliver a single-pane view of all your delivery pipelines across the enterprise.
Participants will learn:
KPI’s of end-to-end dashboard driven development and delivery
Best practices for metrics in Agile / DevOps environments
Role of technology frameworks for integrated planning and reporting
The Essential Guide to SAP Cloud, Data Migration, ABAP, and Reporting.pdfingenxtec
The landscape of enterprise software is in constant flux, and SAP's evolution mirrors this dynamic transformation. Cloud-based innovation, data-driven insights via robust reporting, and the flexibility of ABAP development empower businesses to streamline operations and make impactful decisions.
Understanding new Rapid Deployment Solutions. 150+ applications taht help solve business problems in weeks not years. Written from a basic user viewpoint.what
Agile 2014- Metrics driven development and devopsKarthik Gaekwad
There are many facets of devops, and we will spend our time in this presentation focusing on collecting and using metrics (business, application, system, etc.) and building a metrics driven culture in organizations.
We will define how we have seen devops progress in our organizations and how we’ve realized that different teams in our organizations can find common ground when teams (who have different roles) can work well together when they use metrics as the common language.
Karthik will talk about how we are using the principles from the Lean Startup to define our development cycles, sprints and using metrics to quantify how successful the products we are trying to come out with in R&D. Initially we started practicing devops on the dev and ops side of the house but realized this was still a black box to the business side of the house, so we pivoted to what our business actually understood, and that was metrics; today, we focus more on metrics (business and system level), and can fail or succeed fast to achieve our business goals faster than before.
Ernest will go into detail on how a large, mature SaaS organization uses metrics in conjunction with distributed agile development and DevOps to guide their development at scale. How much a product is used, how much each feature is used, and how much value each user gets out of it are key drivers for a business strategy - and it’s all information that’s emitted by a system. He'll show how large companies have invested time in collecting and using these metrics to guide their decisions and influence their culture.
Taking Splunk to the Next Level - ManagementSplunk
Your team is up and running with Splunk. Now you want to maximize your investment and solve additional business problems. Attend this session led by a Splunk expert on how to expand beyond the initial use case. Learn how to how to capture, document and present Splunk's data and present impactful ways to calculate ROI using concrete metrics; cost savings, time savings, efficiency gains, and competitive advantage.
Transform software delivery with tasktop integration hubTasktop
We won’t build your software for you, but we will transform *how* you build it, making your software delivery process better and faster.
Join us to learn how Tasktop allows your disconnected tools to act harmoniously by automating collaboration, traceability, and visibility from ideation to production, enabling your organization to accelerate its business value delivery.
Product Managers Cynthia Mancha and Trevor Bruner do a live demo to show you how Tasktop lets you:
* connect your Lifecycle, DevOps and Database tools into a unified software delivery toolchain
* scale to hundreds of projects in a matter of minutes
* collaborate in context with attachment and comment synchronization
DEVNET-2015 DevOps In Depth - Damon Edwards on DevOps Kaizen: Building an Ent...Cisco DevNet
Damon Edwards will be discussiong DevOps Kaizen: Building an Enterprise’s Capability to Change -- There are plenty of aspirational DevOps stories about organizations achieving blistering speed and dazzling nimbleness. But when you look at your own organization everything feels complicated, contentious, and stuck. How do you get started? How do you overcome the silos, the legacy, the entrenched behaviors? This talk is about starting and sustaining a DevOps transformation in large and complex of organizations using a methodical -- and totally reasonable -- Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) approach. This talk isn't about mythical silver bullets. It's about real examples of enterprises that learned to fix themselves by taking a fresh look at proven techniques
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
This slide is a discussion of Traditional Project Management V Agile Project Management. Where and how both fits in, why should we go for Agile Project Management, What is Agile etc. is dealt in detail,
Metrics - You are what you measure (DevOps Perth)Rob Crowley
DevOps is no longer just the concern of cutting edge start-ups in Silicon Valley and is gaining wide scale adoption within established industries. This session focuses on the Metrics pillar of DevOps and explores how we can leverage metrics to drive the software delivery process based on data rather than gut feel and opinions.
Connecting ALM Tools for a DevOps World with RLIA-TETasktop
In this slide deck from the on-demand webinar presented by strategic partners Tasktop and 321 Gang, you’ll learn how to connect ALM development tools across development teams to create an architecture for DevOps automation and build process models that connect the various stages of software delivery using RLIA-TE.
Tech Mahindra and CollabNet have worked together on a number of mission-critical projects, and over the course of their partnership have developed unique expertise in lifecycle, development-to-production metrics. Gain an understanding not only of what metrics are important, but also practical approaches to building reports and dashboards that deliver a single-pane view of all your delivery pipelines across the enterprise.
Participants will learn:
KPI’s of end-to-end dashboard driven development and delivery
Best practices for metrics in Agile / DevOps environments
Role of technology frameworks for integrated planning and reporting
The Essential Guide to SAP Cloud, Data Migration, ABAP, and Reporting.pdfingenxtec
The landscape of enterprise software is in constant flux, and SAP's evolution mirrors this dynamic transformation. Cloud-based innovation, data-driven insights via robust reporting, and the flexibility of ABAP development empower businesses to streamline operations and make impactful decisions.
A Quick Intro to Agile, DevOps & Lean Development in the EnterpriseTasktop
Agile, DevOps and Lean are common approaches to modern software delivery. But how are they actually being used in large enterprise? What do you need to consider to make your transformation successful? Visit www.tasktop.com for more information.
SAP Active Global Support - Support for Innovation - Quality Assurance at Cus...Bernhard Luecke
For enterprises , Time to Value is what most counts in the more and more rapidly changing world. As a software provider, SAP needs to ensure the quality of the configured and extended product, integrated as part of the solution landscape of the customer. This is achieved through the SAP Control Center Concept delivered within the SAP MaxAttention or Active Embedded engagement by SAP Active Global Support.
Presentation held at "II Jornadas de Calidad del Producto" in Madrid ( http://calidaddelproductosoftware.com/2014/programa/ )
SAP Process Mining in Action: Hear from Two CustomersCelonis
Hear about insights gained and other benefits of leveraging SAP Process Mining by Celonis at two of the largest global enterprises in their respective industries: SAP SE and Schlumberger.
Mark Saul, Head of Process Management at SAP SE has been spearheading the planning, introduction and successful implementation of SAP Process Mining at SAP. He will outline the benefits and use cases that are relevant for Europe’s largest software company by using SAP Process Mining with SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Data Hub and the positive outcomes for the company.
Jim Brady, Vice President Architecture & Governance from Schlumberger will highlight the company’s SAP GoLive of one of the largest launches recent history. In particular, using SAP Process Mining during the vital hypercare period in that global SAP launch. The focus during that critical time is on adaption monitoring, conformance monitoring, de-bottlenecking, and in part design validation to ensure the SAP launch proves to be a big success.
Presenters:
Alex Marx, Global Partner Director, SAP
James P. Brady, Vice President IT Architecture & Governance, Schlumberger
Mark Saul, Head of Process Management, SAP
How to Use Technology to Support the Lean EnterpriseFindWhitePapers
This SAP Executive Insight addresses the following questions: . What is the Lean enterprise? . What impact do Lean initiatives have on profitability? . What role does IT play in enabling Lean initiatives? . How is technology connected to the success of Lean initiatives?
Webinar: Gartner Predicts New Challenges of SAP Change ManagementPanaya
What challenges do you face when managing change in your SAP ERP system? What can you do to overcome them? Listen to Dr. Derek Prior, Research Director at leading analyst firm Gartner, explore changing trends in the SAP market and solutions to the ever-increasing challenges faced by SAP shops today.
Dr. Derek Prior’s presentation will focus on challenges related to change management and testing, including:
* SAP market trends & the change management challenges of the future
* The need for Impact Analysis & “Best of Breed” tools
* Analytics driven and cloud-based SAP testing
* The evolving role of business key users
SAP, an acronym for Systems, Applications, and Products in
Data Processing, holds a prominent position as a worldwide
frontrunner in enterprise software solutions.
Revolutionizing Business Transformation and Cloud Adoption in 2023VCERPConsultingPvtLt1
Unlock the future of business transformation and embrace cloud adoption in 2023 with our revolutionary PPT presentation. Explore cutting-edge strategies, insights, and success stories that will reshape your organization's journey towards innovation and growth. Join us to navigate the evolving landscape of technology and stay ahead in the race for digital excellence.
Website: https://www.vc-erp.com/
Everything You Need to Build a Risk-Based Testing Strategy for SAPWorksoft
SAP testing isn’t easy. Organizations are challenged to keep pace with an incredible (and growing) volume of enhancements, updates, upgrades, and new apps. But traditional SAP impact analysis is time consuming, costly, and difficult to manage. That’s why the world’s top companies are turning to risk-based testing. Here’s how you can get started too.
Integrating SAP into DevOps Pipelines: Why and HowDevOps.com
Teams practicing DevOps don’t usually have to spend much time thinking about applications like SAP, and SAP often remains a DevOps-free zone that is resolutely difficult to change. But SAP systems enable critical operational processes and in an increasingly interconnected technology stack, need to adapt at high speed if a business is going to be truly agile.
DevOps expertise from outside SAP teams is helping to accelerate change in SAP so that digital transformation of products, processes and business models isn’t held back by dependence on slow, unresponsive ‘systems of record’. In this webinar we’ll look at why it’s important to include SAP in cross-application CI/CD pipelines, and how to do so. Join us to learn:
Why DevOps teams should care about SAP
Key SAP differences that DevOps teams need to understand
How to get started with DevOps for SAP and successfully integrate SAP into wider DevOps pipelines
Real-world examples of SAP DevOps adoption
Power Smart Business Operations with Real-Time Process Intelligence - Solutio...Beyond Technologies
The sooner you detect and act upon threats and opportunities, the sooner you can move your business forward. With complete visibility into end-to-end
business processes and an understanding of where to focus, your frontline employees are empowered to make better and faster decisions during daily business operations in real time.
Basis Technologies DevOps and Testing Platform for SAP Basis Technologies
At Basis Technologies our platform changes the way companies run their SAP systems. By bringing automation technology into the SAP development and delivery, we introduce agility to enterprise businesses so they can innovate and make change seamlessly and more efficiently than ever before.
DevOps Deep Dive Webinar: Building a business case for agile and devopsBasis Technologies
You may have heard about DevOps buzz. But what do you need to know to convince your boss to build a business case ? Why should your organization invest in the changes required to adopt DevOps and Agile methods?
For many companies, DevOps and Agile is a part of this digital transformation puzzle, giving them the agility and operational benefits needed to change IT systems fast.
Download this webinar recording where we’ll explain the technical and business advantage of implementing DevOps and Agile practices in your organization, and how to go about doing it.
Just go to: http://www.basistechnologies.com/Building-a-business-case-for-DevOps-and-Agile-for-SAP-webinar
Mobile, the world-wide-web and the Internet of Things are driving a new digital economy. And it’s growing fast. In order to satisfy the increasing consumer demand, you need to continuously deliver high quality releases. Download this whitepaper and discover the 8 key steps to delivering daily SAP release cycles designed to accelerate the pace of SAP change to support your digital strategy.
BDEx - The must have tool for Utilities running SAP CR&BBasis Technologies
In the past two years, winners of the CS Week CIS Implementation of the Year Award have used BDEx as the main tool for exceptions processing in their projects.
BDEx gives you a 360 degree view of all the exceptions associated with a particular customer, and as a result you can respond to and solve queries faster, increase customer satisfaction and reduce agent workload significantly.
RS Components reduce downtime and enable aggressive SAP rollout strategy to s...Basis Technologies
Find out how one of the world’s leading distributors of electronics and maintenance products implemented technology for SAP that improved critical product data update times by 75% to enable IT to keep up with business expansion.
The 7 circles of SAP project delivery hell - Why system changes are slow, clu...Basis Technologies
Let’s be honest: you need changes to your SAP system like you need another hole in the head.
Your business users expect a lot in a little time. But your resources and tools are far from up to the job. So your change processes are:
• Manual
• Slow
• Linear
• Inefficient
This slideshare is about the Seven Circles of SAP system change Hell – but more importantly, it’s about a different way of delivering SAP projects. One that speeds up every change, saves you resources, and makes your project a lot safer – and less painful.
Take a look.
Before looking at scalable cloud infrastructure, smart Basis Consultants make their existing SAP hardware work to its full potential.
How do they do it? By playing Tetris.
2. If you’ve grown up with the
belief that a solid, reliable SAP
environmentisanauto-renewing
subscriptiontobusinesssuccess,
then the last few years must
have been tough for you.
TheÜbers,Netflixes,andAirbnbs
ofthisworldhavebeendisrupting
almosteverymarketwith
smart innovations and new,
customer-first business
models. They’re changing
whole industries in a matter
of months. Many of them are
doing it without large, complex
ERP systems. And they’re
basking in the glory of their
nimblesolutions,thumbingtheir
nosesatbig,SAP-runbusiness.
But before you turn all cynical
thinking how, with your slow-
moving, rigid, uncompromising
system, you’ll never be able
to pivot like these companies,
consider this:
You’renotburdened
withalegacysystem.
You’reavictimof
legacythinking.
Introduction
3. The truth is, there’s a good
reason you’re running your
business on SAP. And it’s not
just about the back end heavy-
lifting – the system you have
right now is also capable of
alotmoreagilityandinnovation
than you might believe.
Asamatteroffact,businesses
ofallsizesaredoingsome
remarkablyquick-thinking,
innovativethingsintheirSAP
environments.Andtheycando
itbecausethey’veleftbehind
theiroutdatedassumptions
aboutthesystem.
Introduction
Inshort,
old-school thinking about
SAP, based on the way it’s
always been run, is probably
the single biggest obstacle
to innovation, holding big
businesses back every day.
And it’s the first thing you
need to change if you want
to keep the challengers from
eating your lunch.
So let’s look at some of those
assumptions that might be
keeping you from aiming
high, revving up, and leading
business the way you should.
5. The biggest obstacle to change in many
companies is the belief that, in an SAP
environment,innovationisincrediblyhard:
• Because it’s linear and
slow – with a long-winded
development process that
disconnects the reasons for
renewal from its execution
(“Wait... why are we doing
this again?”).
• Because every release
could mean failure –
withlarge-scope,outsourced,
off-the-radar development
projectspotentiallythreatening
your production system with
downtime, loss of revenue,
and reputation damage
(and nobody wants to be
responsible for that).
This has led to an unnecessary
mindsetofriskaversioninmany
SAP companies.
SAP modernization exposes you to unsustainable risk
6. SAP modernization exposes you to unsustainable risk
But let’s face it:
The biggest danger for any
business is NOT to innovate.
7. And, the truth is, the risk
of innovation is entirely
manageable in a modern
SAP environment.
Progressive companies have
demonstrated that there’s
an elegant way of changing
your business, by doing two
crucial things:
• Speeding up the
time-to-market for
SAP development –
by automating the
workflow and approvals
that traditionally stall
developmentandmake
SAP releases so
excruciatingly slow.
• Actively minimizing the
risk of faulty releases –
by putting mechanisms
in place that control code
quality(e.g.enforcingnaming
conventions, or running
dependency checks to
identify potential pitfalls
on-the-go);andbyenabling
roll-back to earlier releases
if problems arise.
These simple steps mean
safer code, less technical
debt, a massively reduced
risk of downtime, and faster
request-to-release times
for any strategic change.
Which makes
innovation a lot
less risky and
entirelymanageable.
SAP modernization exposes you to unsustainable risk
9. In most companies, SAP releases have
always been huge in scope, with all sorts
of features and changes bundled into
one big release that impacts all business
functions at the same time. It’s made
releases incredibly daunting – and given
people the idea that innovations:
• Are few and far between
• Need to be planned
out meticulously
• Can’t be changed,
once started.
Huge scopes create
a lot of waste
70% of development
professionals said
that, when work moves
through the system
inlargebatches,newand
changing requirements
cancreatelargeamounts
of scrap.1
SAP releases must be delivered in massive packages
1. Source: Forrester Research. March 2013 Global Application Life-Cycle Management Online Survey
10. SAP releases must be delivered in massive packages
But really, there’s no
reason not to break up SAP
releases into smaller, more
manageable chunks.
13. Most companies assume that the only way
to handle an SAP system change is to throw
a lot of resources at it. Gartner researchers
reckon that 66% of the total cost of running
SAPisstaff–andmanySAPprojectsdouble
insizewithanarmyofconsultantsandintegrators.
That, frankly, is insane.
SAP projects burn money, fast
14. SAP projects burn money, fast
Because, if you take
a different approach,
system changes don’t
eat up anywhere near
the resources you’re
used to deploying.
15. Themoneysinksactuallycome
fromtheprojectmethodologies
that have developed in the
industry. Because companies
assume they save money
by using offshore labor, they
see no need to revisit their
development practices.
And that makes them waste
resources at a large scale.
(Or, as a recent Forrester
report puts it, “outsourcing
andoffshoringisoftenmerely
‘failure at 70% off’”2
):
• TheydoQAlateinthe
project,asanafterthought.
With dev activity frequently
outsourced and spread
across different time zones,
few companies bother
to establish and enforce
coding standards from
the beginning.
• As a result, they have
to invest serious money
into time – and people-
intensive rework.
Up to 40% of any SAP
developmentcostisrework,
refactoring, and issue
resolution. And it can add
weeks and months to the
project timeline.
Noneofthatisactuallynecessary,
if you do one simple thing:
Build in quality control
checkpoints from day one
of any development activity.
Therearerelativelysimpleways
to analyze code, assess the
impactofachange,andenforce
coding standards as part
of the ongoing development
process. And that ultimately:
• Shaves considerable chunks
of time and money off any
SAP investment.
• Makes it a lot easier for
businesses to trust the
qualityoftheirdevelopment.
• Lets the C-suite finally
adopt the test-and-learn
mindset that’s necessary
for innovation.
And that’s a lot of
bang for a little QA.
SAP projects burn money, fast
2. Source: Kurt Bittner et al. March 2014 Modern Application Delivery Drives Digital Business Success. Executive Overview: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook
17. Many businesses believe that SAP
developmentactivityisbynatureopaque.
That’s because they’ve never had any
systems in place that make projects
trackable. Instead, they’re still using
spreadsheets, or lots of different,
disconnected tools.
The result: there’s no bird’s-
eye-view showing the status
of all dev activity. And that
makes it incredibly hard to
re-prioritize individual activities
in the program – even when
new requirements come up.
(Old-school SAP people still
regard a mid-flight change
of scope as a defeat – a failure
toimplementthe‘masterplan’.)
A strategic overview of all SAP development is impossible
18. That’s not an SAP issue.
It’s a mindset problem.
A strategic overview of all SAP development is impossible
19. Modern SAP-run businesses
use change and release
management systems that
eliminate manual process
updates,andgiveallstakeholders
accesstoadashboardoverview
at all times.
Becauseeveryoneknowswhere
each project is at any point
intime,strategistscanrespond
to new requirements quickly,
correct course and re-deploy
development resources.
That’s a lot smarter
thandoggedlysticking
to an outdated
plan just because
you committed to
it many moons ago
(and can’t see how
or where to stop it).
A strategic overview of all SAP development is impossible
21. All-or-nothing is the hallmark of old-school
SAP thinking.
When it comes to agile development,
this mindset leads to a binary choice:
you can do it 100% or not at all.
With functional silos deeply
engrained, and so much
outsourced development,
most SAP environments stick
toold-fashionedWaterfallmodels
that lock requirements down
early and leave little space for
adjustment. “There’s no way
to do agile in SAP”.
Agile development is impossible in an SAP environment
22. Agile development is impossible in an SAP environment
In fact, it’s not ‘all or nothing’:
Many modern SAP businesses
are proving you can be a lot
more agile without having
to jettison all practices in favor
of full-on sprints and scrums.
23. They’re adopting an agile dev
mindset, using collaboration
systems that:
• Connect the business
requests with the IT agenda.
• Facilitate communication
and approvals.
• Speed up IT Ops to speed
up Dev.
• Coordinate development
across parallel systems.
• Allowformulti-speedprograms
thatprioritizetheurgentover
the everyday.
That lets them stay flexible
to changing requirements
and take a big step towards
continuousdevanddeployment.
Which means IT can
deliver to the needs
of the business more
often and at much
shorter notice,
making companies
more nimble, light-
footed – and more
dangerous to their
competitors. That’s
what agile is all about.
Agile development is impossible in an SAP environment
25. In the non-SAP world, automated testing
takes a lot of the pain and suffering out
of development. Applications that run
hundreds of automated test scripts in a few
minutes immensely cut the cost and time
needed for manual testing.
But there’s a widespread
(and erroneous) belief that,
forSAP,testautomationisjust
not realistic. Fully automated
testing is really hard to do,
and costs a lot of money –
so most SAP shops stick
with long-winded, manual
testing setups.
In SAP, automated testing is a fantasy
26. In SAP, automated testing is a fantasy
Again, that’s based on
a faulty ‘all-or-nothing’
assumption: that there
are no nuances between
100% automated and
100% manual testing.
27. Infact,manySAPdevelopment
teams dramatically accelerate
testingbydeployingautomation
at critical points to:
• Identify instances where
codetouchesriskyobjects–
so they know where to focus
their test efforts.
• Guide them to the spots
in the code that need
particular attention –
instead of allocating all
resources equally.
• Monitorthetestingprogram–
so they can update their
test scripts mid-flight to
remain relevant.
Thesebusinesseshaveproven
thatyoucancombinethebestof
automated and manual testing
in a meaningful way, put your
resources where they’re most
needed, and speedupreleases
byspeedingup testing.
Ifyou’venotautomated
your testing yet,
you’re slowing
everything down.
In SAP, automated testing is a fantasy
29. Many SAP businesses have a habit
of customizing the system rather than
mapping their requirements to what the
system does best. They try to cater to
every eccentric request:
• Writing their own versions
of business processing
programs even though
standard SAP is very close
to the requirements.
• Creating Z programs
to deal with a peculiarity
in the way they’ve always
run their business.
And they get incredibly
frustrated when the system
becomesdifficulttocustomize.
That’s possibly the most
inefficient way of working
with a complex business
system like SAP.
It’salwaysbettertocustomize
30. The only way to overcome
that frustration is to flip the
traditional business analyst
role upside-down.
It’salwaysbettertocustomize
31. Instead of blindly taking
orders from stakeholders
(and struggling to make SAP
dothingsit’snotdesignedtodo),
the modern SAP business
analyst knows the system
inside out and explains the
artofthepossibletobusiness
people (so they want the
right things).
This cultural change may be
the best investment you’ll ever
make in your SAP system:
• When it makes sense, you’ll
revise your organization’s
standard practices to fit your
SAP environment – instead
of the other way around.
• You’ll spend less time and
resources customizing,
meaning things happen
more quickly.
• Your upgrades will go
more smoothly.
• You’ll get ready for the
future: with S4HANA
on the horizon, the less
complex custom code
you’ve got, the quicker
you’ll be up and running.
And because the
business will have
a much better
understanding of
the possibilities in
SAP,you’llbeplaying
to its strengths.
It’salwaysbettertocustomize
33. Let’s face it: Your customers
don’t care what you run your
business on. They care about
yourrelevance,responsiveness
and service.
Your SAP system can be an
incredibly powerful force for
your business. But if it feels like
a dull blade to you, then maybe
you’ve been using it wrong.
Theparadigmofthesuccessful
business may have changed,
but that doesn’t mean that a
solid and reliable SAP system
isn’tstillanenormousadvantage–
if you’re open to running it in
new, more sophisticated ways.
So start thinking of your
SAP system as an enabler,
not an obstacle. Revisit your
old assumptions about the
system, and start innovating
from a position of strength.
Harness the power of the new SAP mindset
35. Our DevOps tools make their
operations more agile, their
strategiesmoreresponsive,and
theirbusinessmorecompetitive.
And they can do the same
for you.
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